Reading old handwriting

Graham Buckell

There was recently a discussion elsewhere in Community

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/111698/transcription-of-english-wills

about reading old handwriting.

@MaureenE123 gave some useful links where you can find more resources on this topic.

FIBIS Fibiwiki Page "Reading old handwriting" https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Reading_old_handwriting

English Handwriting Online 1500-1700: an online course, with links to 28 Lessons, with difficulty rating 1 to 5, based on documents from Cambridge University Colleges, with transcriptions provided. A CERES COPIA project (Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES)).

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There is also the FS Wiki article

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Online_Helps_for_Reading_Old_English_Handwriting

Now I have no excuses for not transcribing all those wills I have collected. Just need to find a few spare weeks (months?).